Business and computing journals indicate a resurgence of interest in the competitive advantages offered by groupware products. However, problems and limitations in the development and implementation of such products s...
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Real time logic (RTL) was introduced as a formalism for reasoning about the relative and absolute timing properties of computational tasks of discrete real-time systems. Extended real time logic (ERTL) is a formalism ...
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Extended Real Time Logic (ERTL) is proposed for the modelling and analysis of hybrid systems, taking as a basis Real Time Logic (RTL). RTL is a first order logic with uninterpreted predicates which relate events of a ...
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Business and computing journals indicate a resurgence of interest in the competitive advantages offered by groupware products. However, problems and limitations in the development and implementation of such products s...
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Business and computing journals indicate a resurgence of interest in the competitive advantages offered by groupware products. However, problems and limitations in the development and implementation of such products suggest a lack of understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). A pilot study was conducted to formulate the core content of a universal CSCW curriculum, a curriculum that includes topics from a range of disciplines. Topics were extracted from existing CSCW syllabi and supplemented with material found in research papers covering CSCW issues. The proposed curriculum was then validated against a small sample of Australian business managers and consultants. The findings highlight the interdisciplinary nature of CSCW systems development and implementation. Implications of findings for CSCW education of business graduates in information systems are discussed together with directions for further research.
Real time logic (RTL) was introduced as a formalism for reasoning about the relative and absolute timing properties of computational tasks of discrete real-time systems. Extended real time logic (ERTL) is a formalism ...
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Real time logic (RTL) was introduced as a formalism for reasoning about the relative and absolute timing properties of computational tasks of discrete real-time systems. Extended real time logic (ERTL) is a formalism for the modelling and analysis of relative and absolute timing properties of hybrid systems (systems that combine continuous variables and discrete event dynamics). The extensions provided by ERTL enable the modelling of system behaviour ranging from activities of the physical entities that form part of the environment of a computing system, to the temporal ordering of the computational tasks of the computing system itself thus providing a formal notation that can be used in all stages of software development.
Summary form only given. Hybrid systems are systems which combine both continuous variable and discrete event dynamics. Their complexity has risen to the extent that traditional approaches which dealt separately with ...
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Summary form only given. Hybrid systems are systems which combine both continuous variable and discrete event dynamics. Their complexity has risen to the extent that traditional approaches which dealt separately with the continuous and discrete aspects of such systems have become obsolete. Instead of proposing a novel formal notation for the specification of controllers for hybrid systems we have developed extended real time Logic (ERTL) as a formal notation for the modelling and analysis of relative and absolute timing properties of hybrid systems. ERTL embeds the discrete system model of the real time logic (RTL) of Jahanian and Mok (1986, 1988) into continuous time, and adds the ability to reason about piecewise continuous functions using predicates over real valued variables. While RTL is able to formally describe the behaviour of computational entities in the time domain, ERTL also permits the formal description of the behaviour of physical entities in both value and time domains.
Scientific applications often require some strategy for temporary data storage to do the largest possible simulations. The use of virtual memory for temporary data storage has received criticism because of performance...
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Scientific applications often require some strategy for temporary data storage to do the largest possible simulations. The use of virtual memory for temporary data storage has received criticism because of performance problems. However, modern virtual memory found in recent operating systems such as Cenju-3/DE give application writers control over virtual memory policies. We demonstrate that custom virtual memory policies can dramatically reduce virtual memory overhead and allow applications to run out-of-core efficiently. We also demonstrate that the main advantage of virtual memory, namely programming simplicity, is not lost.
Scientific applications often require some strategy for temporary data storage to do the largest possible simulations. The use of virtual memory for temporary data storage has received criticism because of performance...
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Scientific applications often require some strategy for temporary data storage to do the largest possible simulations. The use of virtual memory for temporary data storage has received criticism because of performance problems. However, modern virtual memory found in recent operating systems such as Cenju-3/DE give application writers control over virtual memory policies. We demonstrate that custom virtual memory policies can dramatically reduce virtual memory overhead and allow applications to run out-of-core efficiently. We also demonstrate that the main advantage of virtual memory, namely programming simplicity, is not lost.
In an attempt to propose a robust method for understanding natural language (NL) interface commands, a scheme is proposed that infers intentions from an indirect speech-act that does not express users' real intent...
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In an attempt to propose a robust method for understanding natural language (NL) interface commands, a scheme is proposed that infers intentions from an indirect speech-act that does not express users' real intentions explicitly. This method classifies the real intentions of the indirect speech-act into: 1) refusal;2) reversal;3) restriction;4) benefit;and 5) disability. Further, concepts are abstracted for operations, e.g., displaying, moving, and deleting information systems;and constructing the operation knowledge base. This knowledge based comprises operational concepts and the relationships between them. These relationships are assigned the foregoing classifications for intentions. In addition, we construct the knowledge base of objects for the target of operations, e.g., files, figures, strings. This knowledge base contains the relationships: a) antonym;b) exclusive;c) part-of, between the objects;and uses these relations to infer the transitions between the objects. An algorithm is the proposed to infer concepts for operations and concepts for target objects of operations that may represent the user's actual intentions. This proposal scheme was tested with requests on UNIX and a commercially available Japanese Word Processor. The system successfully inferred the intentions for approximately 80 percent of the user's indirect speech-act.
This paper discusses the need for and the use of a software architecture as an important means in the development of complex systems. We start out with a brief analysis of the term "complex" with regard to c...
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This paper discusses the need for and the use of a software architecture as an important means in the development of complex systems. We start out with a brief analysis of the term "complex" with regard to computerized systems. On this basis, we introduce software architectures as a means to cope with the software design aspect of system complexity. We then identify the architectural concepts that are necessary to capture a comprehensive, high level system design and discuss their characterizing properties. Finally, we propose a "construction-oriented" technique for architecture specification which is based on a generic set of architectural elements and is supported by a tool, d-ASPECT (domain Architecture Specification Tool), currently under development at NJIT.
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